Word: trumping
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...educated, costal elite against the hard-working, god-fearing denizens of the country’s heartland. As Thomas Frank describes in his book, “What’s the Matter with Kansas?”, this narrative has become so powerful that it has come to trump nearly all policy considerations: Voters who might be expected to support the policies of the Democratic Party are driven into the Republican camp in a bizarre attempt to stick it to the “elite.” This is the brand of politics that seemed to convince...
...India and Pakistan fought over Kashmir after partition, and a Kashmiri separatist movement has been fighting to eject Indian troops from the region since 1989. The separatists' trump card has always been the threat to join Pakistan, which supported them with guns and guerrillas. India eventually silenced the separatists with force, but Amarnath has reignited their movement. The cries of "Azadi" (Freedom) and the Pakistani flags waving above the crowd of 500,000 people at one particularly fierce protest on Aug. 18 made the point that Kashmiris were once again ready to leave India...
Could anything be more riveting than watching an atomic bomb explode? What could possibly trump seeing the sky, high above Johnston Island, turn into a man-made aurora borealis...
...next group, according to the Clinton adviser, is older female voters who, she said, backed Clinton in large numbers because they believed "experience should trump change. They really wanted a more experienced person as President. It was a bonus for these voters was that Hillary was a woman, because it made them proud of her and themselves. But those women are social progressives. I don't see them turning to McCain because of Sarah Palin...
Twenty-six years later, McCain has returned to the same tactic, but some critics say he is overplaying his trump card. At several points over the past two weeks, the McCain campaign has raised his military service in efforts to defuse political attacks, even when it seemed to have little if any bearing on the issue at hand. When the Obama campaign laid into McCain for not knowing the number of houses owned by his family, McCain spokesman Brian Rogers told the Washington Post that "this is a guy who lived in one house for five and a half years...